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Please Mall Orders To: Connecticut College Bookshop College Center at Connecticut College New London, CT 06320 (203) 439-2375 I I LI _ ConnecticutCollegeMagazine Fall 1994 to FALL 1969, ONE SMAll STEP FOR MAN: Pioneering male student Stephen Delmard'72 signs up for first-semester classes as skeptical women look on. tD State of the Union Twenty-five years after the first male under- graduates stepped onto a campus formerly populated only by women, CC Magazine revisits issues of gender and learning, ON THE COVER: and asks: "Is coeducation working?" Seniors Suzanne A special report. Blezard and Joe Lucas. Photo by Paul Horton. President's Page Of heart and mind The trend toward integrating learning and service n steamy summer nights in New service learning (a new term denoting a London's Bates Woods housing wide range of connections between acad- complex last summer, Connecticut ernie disciplines and community service) O and to enhance and develop practical pro- College sophomore Allyson Clarke worked ConnecticutCollegeMagazi>te with six 10-year-olds to develop reading grams that address challenges in the skills. Tins in itself is not unusual, of course. community. The center is planned as an asset to faculty interest in integrating ser- VolulIle 4 / Number 2 Hundreds of Connecticut College students volunteer to work with underprivileged vice learning into existing course work Co-Editors: youth in the city. What made Allyson's rela- and new service learning courses, promot- Lisa H. Brownell tionship with her young friends different is ing reflective activity for students engaged Chuck Luce that she lived right in the same building with in service, providing training for volun- Assislant Editor/Class Noles: them. She and six other CC students chose teer leaders, and helping orchestrate Mary Farrar to be residents of Bates Woods, a situation community and college responses to com- An Director: Kati Roessner '81 that gave them instant credibility in the munity needs. Photography:Paul Horton, unless The center's plans also call for a semes- credited otherwise community and spoke volumes about their ter-long interdisciplinary seminar to Contributing Writers: commitment. explore citizenship, community and social Leslie A. Gifford, Patricia Logan, Allison and 500 others on campus this Tim Cheney '94 year are bringing renewed passion to an old justice from philosophical, historical, eco- tradition of community service that began in nomic, political and artistic vantage Editorial Board 1915 when Connecticut College undergrad- points. Warren Erickson '74 (Chair) uates first began volunteering at the B.P. In this issue of Connecticut Colfege Allen Carroll '73 Learned House in New London. Magazine you will read more about LEAP, Lawrence Friedman'89 the program for in-residence mentors Claire L Gaudiani '66 Over the generations, our students have Dirk t.D. Held come to know a lesson stated clearly this fall (page 8) and Campus Compact, of which Ellen Harris Knoblock '80 by j-Board chair Dan Shedd '96: r am honored to be the new national Robert B. Rasmussen "Community service breaks the cycle of chair. The Campus Compact organization Ex Officio· and "Literature, Service and Social Lisa H. Brownell cynicism." Service engages people in active Chuck Luce citizenship. Students here see themselves as Reflection," a course I am teaching this change agents, making a difference but also semester as part of our effort to increase Direclor of College Relations understanding and reflecting on challenges in the ways of integrating service learning Christopher T. Cory modern society. Their academic strength into the college curriculum, are detailed and their commitment to serve makes them on page 7 by Kim Conniff '95, a student Executive Director, Alumni Association stronger contributors to whatever profes- in the course. Kristin Stahlschmidt Lambert '69 sional or personal lives they choose. Students Understandably, citizens today are con- pass this culture from class to class, just as cerned about the disintegration of our Alumni Association Executive Board they do with the Honor Code and the cities, violence, drug abuse and an under- President: Marny Morris Krause '66; responsibility for shared governance. prepared work force. By integrating Vice President: Mark Warren '75; community service into academic endeav- Secretary/Treasurer: Marcia Morris Today, that tradition is helping show the '70; Alumni Trustees: Kevon way for others. More than 475 colleges and ors, we are committing ourselves to fresh Copeland '76 and Elizabeth McLane universities, including Connecticut College, ways of learning about these problems, of McKinney '52; Nominating Chair: belong to Campus Compact, the national working with service providers and gov- Samuel Bonum '89; Directors: Joan ernment officials and of applying our Jossen Biven '49 and Janet Foster coalition that is leading the movement for '80. Advisers: Catherine Young '75 campus-based community service. traditional strengths in teaching and (Human Resources); John Sharon To raise our commitment another notch, research to the improvement of the soci- '86 (Accessibility). Century Council this year members of our facuiry and staff in ety of which we are all a part. Liaison: Dhuanne Schmitz Tansill '64. Ex Officio: Kristin Srahlschmidr partnership with New London community- Lambert '69 based organizations, are developing a Center for Community Challenges. The center will . have two sites, one on campus and the other e in New London. Its dual focus will be to ~-9 build on existing community service initia- Claire L. Gaudiani '66 tives to sustain a campuswide culture of President of the College _forVVord Reed-ing, writing and wrestling with the facts In her article, "Racing the Tide," one-half acre of salt marsh from the Advancing by ideas, not pouring coffee [Summer 1994] PelU1Y Parsekian accu- invasive phragmites and am sending you I am honored to have been featured in rately assays the damage being done to a short paper I wrote summarizing my the May/June issue of Connecticut College our New England's natural coastline by efforts.